![]() seemed this far-away, unattainable place, the books from there seemed to come from another planet. The project gradually grew more ambitious from there. ![]() We started with a single book that we wanted to publish, by Geir Angell Øygarden, who is the Geir of the My Struggle books. I think for me it’s really about getting away from that, creating some kind of a community through publishing books-a community of readers, but also writers. “As a writer you’re always alone,” Knausgaard told Ane Farsethås of the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet, explaining why he chose to become a publisher: ![]() Knausgaard runs the press on what he calls “an idealistic basis”-it’s a nonprofit-with his brother Yngve, Asbjørn Jensen, and a few friends. ![]() When Karl Ove Knausgaard joins us in New York this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for the Norwegian-American Literary Festival, he’ll do so not just as the author of My Struggle but as the publisher of Pelikanen (Pelican), the house he founded in 2010. ![]()
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